Faculty at the Department of Criminology

Penn Criminology faculty are proud to be ranked first in the nation among criminal justice and criminology departments in the Chronicle of Higher Education's 2007 faculty scholarly productivity index. Click on a faculty member's name to learn more about their work.
William S. Laufer, Chair, Department of Criminology, School of Arts & Sciences is Julian Aresty Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Sociology and Criminology; Director, The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
	Professor Laufer engages in research on corporate ethics, corporate compliance, and corporate crime. He is currently engaged in research on corporate fraud during war. His most recent book is Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Paul Allison, Professor and Chair of Penn’s Department of Sociology
	Professor Allison has been a member of the Graduate Group in Criminology since 2000. He is the author of several books, including Missing Data, Multiple Regression, Survival Analysis Using SAS, Logistic Regression Using SAS, and Fixed Effects Regression Models for Longitudinal Data Using SAS, as well as numerous articles on regression analysis, event history analysis, logit analysis, and latent variable models.
Caroline M. Angel, Lecturer in Criminology
	Caroline Angel is a psychiatric nurse and holds a Ph.D. in Criminology and Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has focused on criminal victimization and her dissertation was a randomized controlled test of the effects of restorative justice on post-traumatic stress symptoms of victims of burglary and robbery in London, England.
Richard Berk, Professor of Criminology and Statistics
	Professor Berk is interested in a wide range of key questions in criminology: predicting murder, measuring public opinion on how severely criminals should be punished, estimating the effects (if any) of the death penalty on crime, reducing domestic violence, forecasting short-term changes in urban crime patterns, and detecting violations of environmental protection rules. He also works on a range of issues in statistics, including causal inference, data mining, and methods for the evaluation of social programs.
Randall Collins, Professor of Sociology and Criminology (elect)
	Professor Collins teaches social theory to graduate students in criminology and other social sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, and has written numerous books and articles, including The Sociology of the Philosophies (1998) and Interaction Ritual Chains (2004).
Richard Gelles, Joanne T. and Raymond B. Welsh Professor of Child Welfare and Family Violence; Dean of the School of Social Work
	Professor Gelles has been a member of the Graduate Group in Criminology since 2000. The author of Family Violence (1979), Behind Closed Doors (with Murray Straus and Suzanne Steinmetz, 1980) and The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children’s Lives (1996), he supervises doctoral students with interests in criminology.
John MacDonald, Jerry Lee Assistant Professor of Criminology
	Professor MacDonald studies police practices, crime prevention programs, treatment of offenders, perceptions of race discrimination, and the etiology of interpersonal violence.
Stephen Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, and Professor of Psychology and Criminology (elect)
	Professor Morse has been a member of the Graduate Group in Criminology since 2000, and teaches the required course for criminology graduate students in Criminal Law. He is the author of articles in leading law reviews on mental health and criminal responsibility, and the co-editor of Foundations of Criminal Law (1999).
Adrian Raine, Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology and Psychiatry
	Professor Raine's research interests focus on neurocriminology but also include: interaction between social and biological factors in predisposing to crime; biological treatments for aggressive and antisocial behavior; brain imaging; the development of psychopathy, conduct disorder, and violence; crime-schizotypal personality relationships; the neurobiology of spouse abuse; nutrition; lie detection; psychophysiology; neuroendocrinology; neuropsychology; behavioral and molecular genetics; neuroethics; law-neuroscience interface.
Therese Richmond, Associate Professor of Trauma and Critical Care Nursing and of Criminology (elect)
	Professor Richmond as been a member of the Graduate Group in Criminology since 2000. An expert on gun violence and injury prevention, she is Research Director of the Firearms Injury Center at Penn (FICAP). She is also the Co-Director of the Research Core of the Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (a CDC Urban Partnership-Academic Center of Excellence). Dr. Richmond is the author of articles on gunshot injury and victim stress reactions in major medical and nursing journals.
Laurie Robinson, Director, M.S. Program in Criminology and Lecturer in Criminology
	Laurie Robinson's interests include evidence-based crime and justice policy, implementation of change in criminal justice agencies, federal policy-making and state and local criminal justice programs. She is a former Assistant Attorney General of the United States. From 1994 to 2000 she headed the Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice, which administered some $4 billion annually in research, statistics and assistance programs.
Paul Robinson, Colin S. Diver Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Criminology (elect)
	Professor Robinson is one of the world’s leading criminal law scholars. He came to Penn in 2003 from Northwestern University, where he supervised the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology for over a decade. His books include Structure and Function in Criminal Law (1997), Law Without Justice (2004), and A Practical Theory of Punishment: How, Why and Who To Punish (forthcoming).
Paul Rock, Visiting Professor of Criminology
	Professor Rock uses ethnography and other qualitative methods to study settings, processes and decisions affecting justice and the making of criminal justice policy. His work includes ten books on criminological theory, the development of victim support policies in Canada and the UK, the social world of a Crown Court in London, the development of a women's prison in England, and other subjects.
Jeffrey A. Roth, Lecturer in Criminology; Associate Director for Research at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology
	Jeff Roth is Associate Director for Research at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as Study Director of the National Academy of Sciences panel on violence research, and co-edited the Academy's four-volume report Understanding and Preventing Violence.
Lawrence W. Sherman, Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania; Wolfson Professor of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
	Professor Sherman was appointed Penn’s first Professor of Criminology in 2003, and served as the Chair of the new Department until 2007. He is currently the Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania and Wolfson Professor of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Susan B. Sorenson, Professor of Criminology; Professor of Social Policy; Senior Fellow in Public Health
	Professor Sorenson is a public health researcher who uses large primary and secondary data sets and epidemiological methods to study policy and other population-based approaches to violence. Key areas of her interests include violence in relationships and firearms from an injury prevention perspective, as well as how gender, ethnicity, and nativity relate to risk for victimization and criminal offending.
Heather Strang, Lecturer in Criminology
	Heather Strang is an experimentalist at the Australian National University, where she has written on how victims react to restorative justice, patterns in Australian homicide, the effectiveness of crime prevention programs, and methods of program evaluation.

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